Exodus 12:5
Good News Translation
You may choose either a sheep or a goat, but it must be a one-year-old male without any defects.

New Revised Standard Version
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

New American Bible
Your lamb must be a year-old male and without blemish. You may take it from either the sheep or the goats.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male, of one year; according to which rite also you shall take a kid.

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And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male, of one year; according to which rite also you shall take a kid.

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Leviticus 1:3,10 If his offering be a holocaust, and of the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish, at the door of the testimony, to make the Lord favourable to him. . . .

Leviticus 22:19-24 To be offered by you: it shall be a male without blemish of the beeves, or of the sheep, or of the goats. . . .

Deuteronomy 17:1 Thou shalt not sacrifice to the Lord thy God a sheep, or an ox, wherein there is blemish, or any fault: for that is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

Malachi 1:7,8,14 To you, O priests, that despise my name, and have said: Wherein have we despised thy name? You offer polluted bread upon my altar, and you say: Wherein have we polluted thee? In that you say: The table of the Lord is contemptible. . . .

Hebrews 7:26 For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

Hebrews 9:13,14 For if the blood of goats and of oxen, and the ashes of an heifer, being sprinkled, sanctify such as are defiled, to the cleansing of the flesh: . . .

1 Peter 1:18,19 Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers: . . .

a male of the first year.

Leviticus 23:12 And on the same day that the sheaf is consecrated, a lamb without blemish of the first year shall be killed for a holocaust of the Lord.

1 Samuel 13:1 Saul was a child of one year when he began to reign, and he reigned two years over Israel.

Context
The First Passover
4But if the number be less than may suffice to eat the lamb, he shall take unto him his neighbour that joineth to his house, according to the number of souls which may be enough to eat the lamb. 5And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male, of one year; according to which rite also you shall take a kid.6And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and the whole multitude of the children of Israel shall sacrifice it in the evening.…
Cross References
Hebrews 9:14
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?

1 Peter 1:19
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled

Exodus 12:4
But if the number be less than may suffice to eat the lamb, he shall take unto him his neighbour that joineth to his house, according to the number of souls which may be enough to eat the lamb.

Leviticus 1:3
If his offering be a holocaust, and of the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish, at the door of the testimony, to make the Lord favourable to him.

Leviticus 1:10
And if the offering be of the flocks, a holocaust of sheep or of goats, he shall offer a male without blemish.

Leviticus 22:18
Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man of the house of Israel, and of the strangers who dwell with you, that offereth his oblation, either paying his vows, or offering of his own accord, whatsoever it be which he presenteth for a holocaust of the Lord,

Leviticus 23:12
And on the same day that the sheaf is consecrated, a lamb without blemish of the first year shall be killed for a holocaust of the Lord.

Numbers 7:57
An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:

Exodus 12:4
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